Alien Artifacts*

Alien Artifacts is an engaging 4X-style card game where players lead interplanetary factions vying for supremacy through exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination. You'll command research vessels to explore uncharted space, construct formidable ships, innovate technologies, and colonize planets to further your faction's dominance.

Gameplay Overview

  • Resource Management: Start each turn with 3 Resource cards, each offering two types of resources but allowing only limited use, challenging you to make strategic choices.
  • Card Dual-Use: Every card can be utilized in two ways—Logistics for ongoing benefits or Operational for scoring victory points.

Special Features

  • Diverse Strategies: Build ships to battle aliens and gain artifacts, or focus on developing technologies and exploring planets for resources.
  • Dynamic Card Play: Choose between enhancing your empire's strength or boosting your point-scoring capabilities, with the ability to activate operations multiple times if played strategically.

Conclusion

Alien Artifacts delivers a comprehensive 4X gaming experience packed into an efficient playtime. With over two hundred cards, the game ensures a high level of replayability, offering various strategies to master. Whether you're battling alien forces or pioneering through space, this game provides a rich narrative and strategic depth that will appeal to both casual and avid gamers alike.

Nominated for 2 awards.

  • 2 - 5 Players
  • 60 Minutes
  • 10+ years old
  • Medium difficulty

Video reviews, ratings, Let's Plays and tests for Alien Artifacts

  • YouTube Review for the game "Alien Artifacts" by BoardGameGeek
    Video is in English

We like Alien Artifacts so much that we recommend it in the following board game recommendation lists 2024

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